Hi Tim,



Thanks for contacting me via email and assisting me with extending my evaluation for long enough to test the Activesync upgrage.



I can confirm that by upgrading to Activesync 4.5 my SkyDemon Plan will now successfully synchronise with my SkyDemon Mobile, running on my iPAQ h6340.



Now that I'm happy that it's all working successfully, I think you can expect and order in the coming week or so.



Thanks for your help and excellent software.



I hope other users will find this thread useful.



Cheers,



Dom

Hi Tim,



I checked on the Activesync and have upgraded mine to the latest version (4.5), but as sods-law would have it, my eval licence expired today, so I've not been able to see if it fixes the synchronisation issue with my iPAQ h6340 Any chance of a 1 day licence file just so that I can check it? I think I'm going to buy the full product anyway, as I'm so impressed with it, but it would just be nice to see if the Activesync issue is fixed.



Thanks,



Dom

Thanks very much for posting the results of your hardware trial for others to use, and I'm glad the software is working out well for you.

I'm afraid I don't know what minimum version of ActiveSync may be required. It has worked on the versions that you get when you download ActiveSync today for XP, Vista and Windows 7 though. Perhaps you could look to see if there's a later version available for whatever OS you're using; it would probably be worth upgrading anyway if you can.

Hi Tim,



Late last year I downloaded the original Beta version of your software and was suitably impressed. Not long afterwards, the full version was released.



During April I used a copy of the full version of SkyDemon Plan when I went on a flying trip around France with my friend David Dowell and once again I was impressed to see the software in action on a daily basis.



On my return I downloaded version so that I could trail the released version, with a view to buying the product.



As part of my testing, I've been tinkering with an old HP iPAQ h6340 PDA to see if I could get the SkyDemon Mobile to work on it and I'm please to say that today I've got it to work, with only 1 real bug.



Hopefully these notes will be useful for others who may wish to install on a similar device:



1. On an old Windows CE device, you will problaby need to install Microsoft .NET Compact Framework Version 2.0. Due to the age of my device, I chose version 2.0 as I thought it was likely to be more compatible. You can download it from the link below:



http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9655156b-356b-4a2c-857c-e62f50ae9a55&displaylang=en



2. Download the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework Version 2.0 installer on to your PC and then run it. If like my install, it didn't want to automatically install on to my iPAQ, so all I did was locate the install .CAB file and copy it to my iPAQ storage card and launch the installer direct from the iPAQ. The install .CAB file can be found here:



C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\CompactFramework\v2.0\WindowsCE\wce400\armv4\NETCFv2.ppc.armv4.cab



2. Next locate the SkyDemon Mobile installer: C:\Program Files\Divelements Limited\SkyDemon\InFlightInstaller.exe and run it, with you PDA connected.



You will probably get an error message saying that it can't find .NET Compact Framework Version 2.0 on your PDA, but just ignore this and continue. When you select your maps, make sure you have enough space on your PDA storage card to accommodate them. The application is about 55Mb and the maps require between 2 - 5Mb each. I just loaded up the UK map for testing.



3. The installation to the storage card takes time, so be patient! Eventually it will finish and SkyDemon Mobile should start automatically. When it starts, it takes a while to load up the maps, but once loaded, it behaves quite quick.



4. Next we need to get the GPS working. My HP iPAQ h6340 doesn't have an inbuilt GPS receiver, so I decided to use a bluetooth receiver paired to it. I'm personally using an iBlue 747A GPS receiver, which I bought cheap on eBay. Just start up the Bluetooth Manager and search for the Bluetooth GPS and connect. You then need to connect the GPS to SkyDemon Mobile, which is done under 'Tools', 'GPS Settings'. Unless you know the Comm Port the GPS has been installed on, then you may need to test each Comms Port listed. I eventually found my installed on Comm Port 7, with a Baud Rate 57600.



Once I started the GPS in SkyDemon Mobile, it all worked fine. The only issues I have found is that I can't seem to synch between SkyDemon Plan on my PC and my HP iPaq h6340. Despite ActiveSync running correctly and my iPAQ docking and undocking correctly, I just can't get SkyDemon Plan to sync. I get the error message:



"Unable to connect to the remote device. Ensure that your device is connected via ActiveSync and try again. Further information:



Unable to create ActiveSync object. Make sure ActiveSync is installed "



I'm running ActiveSync 3.7.1; is there a minimum version required to get the synchronisation working?



However, the Sync not working isn't too much of an issue as I can just manually copy my routes to the storage card on the iPAQ, which seems to work fine.



I just need to trial it in the air now, however it looks like I'll be making a purchase of the full product at the end of my trial period as I'm extremely impressed with it.



So in summary here is the spec. of the Hardware and Software I've got working:



HP iPaq h6340

Windows CE 4.20.0.3 (PocketPC 2003)

.NET Compact Framework 2.0

Display H240 x V320

System RAM 64Mb

Storage Card 256Mb

SkyDemon Mobile Version 2.1